EXHIBITION OF JELENE JOCIĆ
“SALON 77” /16. July – August 7/
She was born in Belgrade in 1970. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1997 at the Department of Graphics, received her Master’s degree in 2000, received her doctorate and earned the title of Doctor of Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts within the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2017. During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded a scholarship by the Republic Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth of Serbia. In the period from 1998 to 2002, as part of the project for talented people, she worked at the Department of Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.
Since 2003, he has been working as a professor of vocational studies at the Polytechnic Academy of Vocational Studies, at the Department of Design. Until now, she has had several solo exhibitions and over two hundred group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She exhibited in New York, Paris, Luxembourg, Liège, Quebec, Thessaloniki, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Madrid, Budapest, Istanbul, Stockholm, Skopje and at many international biennials and triennials of graphics. She is the winner of several awards in the field of graphic art (Petar Lubarda, Đorđe Andrejević – Kun, 8th and 9th Biennial of Yugoslav Student Graphics).
The most important awards in the field of graphics are:
The Small Seal Award of the Graphic Collective in 2010 and the Large Seal Award in 2021. The work “Bridges” is in the collection of the Museum of the City of Belgrade. Her works were included in the Acquisition of Works of Art of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia (2005, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). He has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1998, and a member of the board of directors of ULUS since 2022-2023. year. He has been a member of the Art Council and the Board of Directors of the Graphic Collective Gallery in Belgrade since 2011. She was elected as the president of the Board of Directors of the Central Committee at the General Committee meeting held on July 6, 2023.
Jelena Jocić continues her artistic research by connecting to the found interiors of large industrial centers, finding in them the idea for defining an ideal space. Combining the visual and the perceptual into one whole, he develops a unique artistic language in the context of which visions of an ideal space can be seen. Through his own photographic observation, he singles out the dominant motif of empty, desolate industrial complexes, approaching the framing process, which hints at transience, alienation and loneliness. Continuing the process of making in addition to nurturing and visual relationships, the tangle of crossed lines and collaged pop art pieces also includes a number of artefacts.
Through the games of light and geometric surfaces as well as assembly procedures applied by constructivist artists, he explores the boundaries of personal and private space.
The architectural definiteness of the interior, which is associated with metal structures, served as a metaphor for the border that separates the artist from the found environment, entering into new timeless dimensions.